pbisaacs wasn't at the Hyperscale meeting but there are some open questions about how we'd fit aarch64 into our process.
From the meeting minuets it was mentioned that it would take some infra work. It looks like the centos koji does have the ability to build for aarch64, not sure what infra work it would take beyond adding the new architecture to our tags.
In an effort to figure out how it would impact people uploading packages who don't have access to aarch64 hosts I tried to build packages locally on my x86_64 machine to see how hard it was. Surprisingly the pretty much all of packages I tried built fine with the mocks built in static qemu tooling. I found two that don't work Systemd which won't pass tests through mock and consistently timed out in my vm and rasdaemon which has a crc and some strange configuration issue. But we have a way to at least validate builds work outside of cbs when needed.
Doesn't seem like it adds too much difficulty it looks like koji will automatically build even scratch builds for both architectures and a vm test will show us if the packages install and works correctly to a reasonable degree. If pbisaacs and their team is open to verifying the sig works on a real aarch64 host or looking at aarch64 specific issues that seems fine to me.
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I'm not sure who this person is, but is this person willing to become a member of the SIG to help with AArch64 specific issues?
@ngompa My apologies I hit enter before I had finished the message and have yet to find a way to edit the body if possible. (same edit button as the title i am tired today)
pbisaacs requested membership in the SIG. From their email address they look to be with Linaro and their interest for aarch64 matches well with the Hyperscale sig objectives.
The edit button is at the top next to the title, fwiw. :wink:
In principle, I think we can fit in AArch64 just fine. CBS already has AArch64 hosts to build packages with: https://cbs.centos.org/koji/hosts
If this person wants to be a member of the SIG, they need to sign up for a FAS account so they exist for us to add to the Pagure group: https://pagure.io/group/centos-sig-hyperscale
We can add aarch64 to the tags. It requires a centos-infra ticket, and then we'll need to bump and rebuild all packages for Koji to pick it up. As long as someone is taking point of ensuring these aarch64 builds work properly and fixing issues as they come up, this is fine by me.
Looks like we're open to this but don't have all the resources for testing as is, and haven't heard back in a bit. We'll reopen this if we here back.
Metadata Update from @jvreeland: - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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